Anthony Bean

{{Short description|Australian botanist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox scientist/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}{{Scholia}} '''Anthony Russell Bean''' (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha.<ref>{{Cite Q|Q92315276}}</ref> Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trove: Bean, Anthony Russell (1957 - )|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1514411|access-date=2020-11-27|website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref> The standard author abbreviation '''A.R.Bean''' is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.<ref name="IPNIstd">{{cite web |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/35385-1 |title=Bean, Anthony R. (1957-) |website=International Plant Names Index (IPNI) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2025 |access-date=18 November 2025}}</ref>

==Career== From at least 1989, he was working at CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, in Nambour, Queensland,<ref name=euc1>{{cite Q|Q92299951}}</ref> and much of that work was on Eucalypts.<ref name=euc1/><ref>{{Cite Q|Q92299829}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Q|Q92299744}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Q|Q92299719}}</ref>

In later years he has contributed to the history of Australian botany, with work on Ludwig Leichhardt,<ref>{{Cite Q|Q102404405}}</ref> Frederick Kenny,<ref>{{Cite Q|Q92301335}}</ref> and Cyril Tenison White,<ref>{{Cite Q|Q92301215}}</ref>

== Names published == IPNI lists 343 names published by Bean.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bean, Anthony R. {{!}} International Plant Names Index|url=https://www.ipni.org/a/35385-1|access-date=2020-11-27|website=www.ipni.org}}</ref> Examples are:

* ''Alphitonia pomaderroides'' <small>(Fenzl) A.R.Bean.</small><ref>{{Cite Q|Q92298673}}</ref> * ''Eucalyptus exilipes'' <small>M.I.H. Brooker & A.R. Bean</small><ref>{{Cite Q|Q55756122}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{wikispecies-inline}} * [https://www.inaturalist.org/people/4522590/ Anthony Bean] on iNaturalist

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bean, Anthony Russell}} Category:1957 births Category:20th-century Australian botanists Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century Australian botanists